Publication

6022 III. Öskjuvatn

Country:

USA

Publication year:

1948

Scale:

1:50 000

The U.S. Army Map Service took aerial photographs of all Iceland in the years 1945-1946 and published maps based on them in 1948-1951. They are commonly called the AMS maps. Many of the place names and other information was taken from the Danish maps of the years before.A total of 297 maps were published but they were not updated later. For a long time the elevation information on these maps was the best that the National Land Survey of Iceland had access to.